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"Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make, the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." - Alexander Hamilton

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Racism in New Orleans

Recently (about 2 months ago) I returned from a trip to New Orleans where I helped with the cleanup effort. Many people were thankful, now I find out that I would not longer be welcomed because I am not a chocolate person.

The racist mayor of New Orleans said that at the end of the day New ORleans would be chocolate, meaning black. There is obviously no room for Asians, Hispanics or white people in New Orleans.

With this type of hatred and racism I want to be paid for my volunteer work down in New Orleans. For milage to the racist city I should paid about $1300. For my labor of about 30 hours plus the 40 hours of traveling we should be fair. With McDondalds workers earning $10 an hour plus a hiring bonus I think $20 a hour would be fair. This comes to $1,400. SO if the hate filled racist mayor of New Orleans is reading this please send me a check for $2700.

BTW: For all who live and vote in New Orleans why did you reelect this idiot?

For any non chocolate people you are not welcome in New Orleans so I would leave all the volunteer work behind.

There should be no more federal money for overtly racist cities.

And mayor just for the record, while I only saw about 300 total volunteers while I was there feeding and clothing and tearing apart houses. . . you know how many chocolate people were there helping .I saw Hispanics, asians (some from China and some from Korea), white people . . . you know what I did not see there helping? Take one guess o racist Nagin.






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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Why Windows?

The new INtel Macintosh computers have spawned a new cottage industry: virtualiization software. There has always been options for running Windope on the Macintosh.

Soft PC, Virtual PC, Real PC, Guest PC, WINE, DOSBOX as well as several others.

All of these had something in common. They ran without an iNtel chip and suffered from emulation problems. The slow downs were impossible. VPC and the other recent ones would need to have older versions of a Micro$oft operating systems.

Now we have options.

Bootcamp: Apple's own software that lets people boot directly into Windows.

Parallels: Lets people run Windope in the own window on the desktop as a separate program. I personally like Parallels.

The question I really have is why?

Okay, I am using DOSBOX to run my favorite game of all time, "V for Victory."

In the area I live there are a number of companies (farming) that have specific WinTel only programs. Okay, I can deal with that.

But, it seems that most postings are wanting to run Windope full time. Why? 114K+ viruii, spyware? I am not to sure.

I just switched my wife over to Macintosh, she was not happy. But, her sister just had a virus while running Macafee. This scared her (my wife). I ran a spyware removal program. OMG! look at how many spyware there was. It took me hours to remove. My wife has one Windope program that she wants to run. So she is getting VPC.

But come on Mac people, Windows is not fun, it is not pretty, it is not easy to use, it is fully of virus, spyware and more. The mac is designed as it should be, a great user experience.

I am sure this is a trend that will pass, windows on mac.


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